"On Saturday it starts to turn a bit cooler and cloudier in northern parts with some drizzle as a cold front swings southwards across the UK.
Giddins pays proper due to the Basie-Young classics of the 30's, but again goes against received opinion by praising Basie's post-1950 bands, which are often denigrated as cold, impersonal swing machines.
His pain doctors want him to get off it and although he is doing it very gradually, the side effects are very hard: anxiety, hot and cold sweats, mood swings and depression.
In fact, the 82-year-old would do just about anything to stay in the limelight he won through decades as a nightclub impresario and self-anointed playboy in swinging, cold war West Berlin.
And there were distractions: the Yankees swinging cold bats; what Obama was saying about Hillary; the Yankees who were injured; what Hillary was supposedly not saying about Obama; the Yankees showing signs of life; what McCain was saying about Iran.
In colder regions, seasonal swings are bigger, and the market peaks later.
The tables are bare, the walls are empty, when the front door swings open cold breezes come with it, and parties of fewer than five must line up to wait for tables, but the two owners are smiling.
Premium wine grapes require a delicate balance of climatic conditions--not too hot, not too cold, and no extreme swings in daily temperature.
It suggested more volatile winters, with swings from cold to mild linked to rising greenhouse gas emissions, might even raise death rates.
"If a hitter is hot and he's hitting, or he's cold and he's swinging and missing, I want to see where.
